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Changelog for Opera 9.20 for UNIX

Opera 9.20 for UNIX is available for download.

Release Notes

  • Opera 9.20 introduces Speed Dial and Developer Tools.
  • The search engine in Speed Dial can be chosen in Search preferences. This release dynamically merges a default set of searches with your custom searches.

This release is a recommended security upgrade. See the Security section for additional information.

A separate changelog listing changes since Beta 1 is available.

Changes Since Opera 9.10

User interface

  • Changed keyboard shortcuts Ctrl + 0-9 to call speed dial entries. Panel activation shortcuts moved to Ctrl + Shift + 0-9
  • Kiosk mode defaults to not displaying Speed Dial. Added new kioskmode switch kioskspeeddial to enable feature.
  • Added thumbnails on hover in Windows panel.
  • Added support for automatic search from address bar when entering more than one word.
  • Start bar disabled by default.
  • Added support for animated GIF images in skins.

Mail, messaging, and newsfeeds

  • IRC /quit messages now work properly.
  • Transfer status on IRC improved.

Display and scripting

  • CSS height:inherit now inherits the computed value.
  • Scripts in framesets now execute onload.
  • Applets inserted with innerHTML can now be called by JavaScript.
  • Manipulating content inside about:blank will now change the address of about:blank to match that of the manipulating page.

Developer Tools

Security

  • Fix for character encoding inheritance issue with frames, which could enable cross-site scripting. See the advisory.
  • Avoided a vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player. Details will be disclosed at a later date. See the advisory. Issue reported to Opera by Mark Hills.
  • Fixed an issue regarding handling of FTP PASV response, as reported by Mark at bindshell.net
  • XMLHttpRequest now treats separate ports on the same server as a different server. Issue reported by Egmont Koblinger.
  • Fixed an issue where scripts could continue to run after leaving the page, as reported by Herrmann Manuel.
  • Skandiabanken.no's message about successful certificate installation is now shown.

Miscellaneous

  • Multiple stability fixes.
  • Voluntary, anonymous usage statistics reporting feature added.
  • Flickr Organizr now works correctly in Opera.
  • Fullscreen movies on YouTube now start.
  • Images with broken exif data now display.
  • Saving big images should now work more reliably.
  • When specifying address:port without specifying the protocol, "http://" is once again inferred.
  • Added support for the optional "key" in BitTorrent tracker requests.

UNIX-specific changes

  • Fixed an issue where the libX11 patch for CVE-2007-1667 causes Opera to crash on startup.
  • Introduced shared memory handling on Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris. Set the environment variable OPERA_NUM_XSHM to 0 to disable shared memory.
  • Deadkeys now work in GMail compose.
  • An invalid system locale no longer causes missing text.
  • Fixed spellchecker on FreeBSD.
  • Improved plug-in detection.
  • .6 PPC Linux builds now also work on Sony PS3 with Linux installed.
  • Fixed issue with transparent areas in some widgets.
  • Improvements to plug-in communication with JavaScript, using NSAPI.